Thursday, October 22, 2015

Steve Scaglione, MD will
present “Prevalence, readmissions, and mortality associated with Liver
Cirrhosis in a large national health insurance administrative database” on
Wednesday, October 28th at 11am in conference room 3340.

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Trialect at www.trialect.com is soliciting applications for USAID Washington, DC based Internships in
Public Health. GHFP program offers 16 weeks internships Currently enrolled in
master’s or other post-bachelor’s degree candidate in public health,
international health, international development, social sciences, or a related
fields such as biostatistics, epidemiology, etc; or, completion of such within
the past 12 months. To be considered for internship, applications have to be
submitted before October 23. The application process is very simple and
requires filling a questionnaire that covers their education, current studies,
language skills, experience, etc. The details can be perused at :USAID Internships in Public Health

Monday, October 19, 2015

Thank you so much for
Raising the Barre at this year’s Pumpkin Patch Parade! It was a hugely
successful event, thanks in the largest part to our Loyola Public Health volunteers who kept everything running smoothly.

Your help with setting up,
running the games, Fit and Fun, Jump Rope, tear down, and everything in between
made this a truly remarkable event.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Drs. Richard Cooper and Majid
Afshar will discuss plan for joint submission of CTSA with Univ. of Chicago,
and further thoughts on advancing Translational Research at LUMC on
Tuesday, October 20th at 11 am in conference room 3340.

Monday, October 5, 2015

This fall I’m working with Seven Generations Ahead and the
Illinois Farm to School Network for my practicum and capstone project. We’re
using SoGoSurvey (http://www.sogosurvey.com/) to create and distribute a state
wide survey of Illinois farmers and school stakeholders to help develop
identify barriers to implementation of farm to school programming. We’re hoping
to get feedback from all counties in Illinois to identify the unique challenges
and successes of schools from all areas of the state.The data collection and analysis should be
completed this semester so that the new toolkit can be developed early next
year to help facilitate the connection between schools and farmers with ample
time to start planning for the next school year.

After searching for a survey creation tool that fits our
needs we’ve chosen SoGoSurvey over other platforms for its ease of use, and the
ability to add our own logo and branding to the survey. We wanted a more
professional look than other places would provide, without going to a much
costlier service. Additionally, it’s super easy to start setting up your survey
and has all the response types you might need (single select, multi select,
ranking, etc). Since our survey is being sent to individuals with very different
roles it’s important that we can customize it for each person who responds.

One of the great features that isn’t available on many of
the free survey platforms is the branching and skip logic. No need for your
respondents to wade through a sea of questions that need the answer “n/a”, just
jump them to the next applicable question based on their answers. As someone
who has never generated a survey from scratch, I find the interface intuitive
and easy to use.

As any of you who have disseminated online surveys know,
just because you reach out to someone doesn’t mean they’ll actually take the
survey. SoGoSurvey lets you track who is opening your e-mails and taking the
survey so you can track who you need to follow up with without bombarding those
who have already completed it. It also allows for completely anonymous
responses, which can make the IRB process a lot easier.

For those of you who need a little help with the analysis
side of things, there are great tools for summaries to get you started, and you
can easily export your data to do further analysis. It’ll also make pretty
graphs for your presentations which we all know is important.

So if anyone is planning a survey for their capstone,
(because of course you are already thinking about your capstone, right?) SoGoSurvey
is a great option. Or you can do what I did and spend a couple of hours
researching and comparing all the different tools out there.

And most importantly, if anyone knows any farmers and/or
school decision makers (principals, food service directors, teachers, or
wellness directors) who you think would be interested in giving us some
feedback and help us get fresh, healthy, local food into Illinois schools, send
me an e-mail at jtyryfter@gmail.com.

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Dr. Holly Kramer will be featured in the next the Public Health Sciences Seminar next Tuesday, October 6, at 11 am in Room 3340. Her title is: "Results of the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial"